"A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want."

“The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.”

“If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”

Source : "The Raven Boys". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2012.

“There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.”

“There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.”

“I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young”

“My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.”

“John Kerry has promised to take this country back from the wealthy. Who better than the guy worth $700 million to take the country back? See, he knows how the wealthy think. He can spy on them at his country club, at his place in Palm Beach, at his house in the Hamptons. He's like a mole for the working man.”

“I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”